Elizabeth Mitchell
Software Engineer at Google
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolElizabeth Mitchell is a software engineer with seven years of experience building polished, accessible front-end experiences, currently contributing at Google from San Francisco. She has a strong track record in Material Design UI work—contributing meaningful component improvements, accessibility fixes, and style refactors to high-profile repositories like material-components/material-web. Prior roles as Lead UI Developer and Senior Developer show a progression from hands-on component implementation to leading front-end efforts and shaping UI architecture. Her background in Arts and Technology gives her a designer-aware approach to engineering, evident in attention to semantic HTML and UX details such as prefix/suffix support and icon slot behavior. Colleagues rely on her for pragmatic refactors that balance visual fidelity, semantics, and maintainability.
7 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Arts and Technology, Bachelor's degree, Arts and Technology at The University of Texas at Dallas
Github Skills (9)
html10
accessibility10
css10
uid10
material-design10
javascript10
web-components10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
material-components/material-components-web
Dec 2019 - May 2022
Modular and customizable Material Design UI components for the web
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 22 reviews, 225 commits in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Elizabeth primarily contributed to the implementation and improvement of Material Design UI components for the web. Their commits focused on enhancing the text field component, including adding features such as end-alignment and prefix/suffix support, as well as refining the styling for placeholder elements and icons. They also made changes to the switch component, including renaming the `checked` property to `selected` and adjusting DOM structure. Additionally, the user has been involved in refactoring code for more semantic HTML structure to improve accessibility.
reactmaterial-componentsmaterialcssjavascript
material-components/material-web
Nov 2019 - Jan 2023
Material Design Web Components
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 225 reviews, 451 commits in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Elizabeth's contributions primarily focus on the Material Design Web Components, with a focus on UI element enhancement and bug fixing. They have implemented default slots in the icon button component. Also, they have made improvements and fixes to the text field and slider components by adding properties and fixing accessibility issues. Finally, the user has refactored styles and code for the filter, input, and suggest chips component.
web-componentsmaterial-componentsmaterialweb-designmaterial-design
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